Near-extinction stories are nearly as old as the human species, from Noah’s flood to 20th-century narratives about nuclear holocaust (1950s–60s) and pandemics (1970s–80s), to the current spate of ...
N. Katherine Hayles
N. Katherine Hayles is the James B. Duke Professor of Literature at Duke University. She teaches and writes on the relations of science, technology, and literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. Her most recent book is How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (2012). She is currently at work on a book about nonconscious cognition in human brains, technical systems, and culture. 